Living With Robots
by Paul Dumouchel /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Living with Robots
Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the
field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial
empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution.
Today’s robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful
ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and
companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial
intelligence, but the field’s most probing questions explore the
nature of the very real human emotions that social robots are
designed to emulate.
recounts a foundational shift in the
field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial
empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution.
Today’s robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful
ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and
companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial
intelligence, but the field’s most probing questions explore the
nature of the very real human emotions that social robots are
designed to emulate.
Social roboticists conduct their inquiries out of necessity―every
robot they design incorporates and tests a number of hypotheses
about human relationships. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano show
that as roboticists become adept at programming artificial
empathy into their creations, they are abandoning the
conventional conception of human emotions as discrete, private,
internal experiences. Rather, they are reconceiving emotions as a
continuum between two actors who coordinate their affective
behavior in real time. Rethinking the role of sociability in
emotion has also led the field of social robotics to interrogate
a number of human ethical assumptions, and to formulate a crucial
political insight: there are simply no universal human
characteristics for social robots to emulate. What we have
instead is a plurality of actors, human and nonhuman, in
noninterchangeable relationships.
Social roboticists conduct their inquiries out of necessity―every
robot they design incorporates and tests a number of hypotheses
about human relationships. Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano show
that as roboticists become adept at programming artificial
empathy into their creations, they are abandoning the
conventional conception of human emotions as discrete, private,
internal experiences. Rather, they are reconceiving emotions as a
continuum between two actors who coordinate their affective
behavior in real time. Rethinking the role of sociability in
emotion has also led the field of social robotics to interrogate
a number of human ethical assumptions, and to formulate a crucial
political insight: there are simply no universal human
characteristics for social robots to emulate. What we have
instead is a plurality of actors, human and nonhuman, in
noninterchangeable relationships.
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AsLiving with Robots
Living with Robots shows, for social robots to be
effective, they must be attentive to human uniqueness and
exercise a degree of social autonomy. More than mere automatons,
they must become social actors, capable of modifying the rules
that govern their interplay with humans.
shows, for social robots to be
effective, they must be attentive to human uniqueness and
exercise a degree of social autonomy. More than mere automatons,
they must become social actors, capable of modifying the rules
that govern their interplay with humans.